Mille-Feuille

  Οὐκ ἔνι ἰατρικήν εἰδέναι, ὅστις μή οἶδεν ὅ τι ἐστίν ἄνθρωπος.                 It is not possible to know medicine without knowing what a human is.                 Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.  Hippocratic aphorisms like this one are quite timeless. Why study medicine?   Because it brings your life into intersection with those of so many others -- often at their most intimate and difficult moments, you can provide assistance and become a pillar of strength to them. One's health and their life history are inextricably bound. Even if it simply taking a patient history, I realize how much of someone's story can be consolidated into a few comments -- a disorder that has affected them their whole life can be summarized sometimes in a neat paragraph, despite the details being anything but simple.  I realized how much of a privilege it is for a physician to be able to hear these stories and to use your clinical training and your experience

  we use the word "funny" to describe both things that are humorous as well as things that are strange, unexpected, or illogical.      i.e. that's funny. i thought i placed my keys here. this shows up in other languages as well (C) 彼はおかしい人ですね。 —> he's a funny guy (D) 彼の頭はおかしい。—> there's something wrong with his head Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind Dennett, Hurley, and Adams

  Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful -Vincent Van Gogh

if you only look up and see a small patch of the sky, you only know how to head in that one direction.  it's easy looking back after all the searching you did, with the broadened sky you have, and say - well, i wish i knew to turn my head here in the first place. but the problem is, it is impossible for you to know what you like or dislike unless you already experienced it, impossible for you to find a new path if you never stumble on your current one. face the world with a childlike wonder, to anticipate not what's negative, but the beautiful things there are for us to behold within every single day.  our bodies are formed from stardust, the same elements that constitute all living species and everything on this planet. despite all the rarity of life itself however,  we live in a rather unremarkable galaxy. our solar system is on the unremarkable outskirts of said galaxy, and the sun it revolves around is all but one small star among 100 billion. orbiting around said sun is a